A renowned chef specialising in Italian cuisine has taken on his first pub in the UK following a £300,000 joint investment with Greene King Pub Partners.
Teams who went above and beyond to ensure pubs were well stocked and smoothly run during the unprecedented challenges of the past year were recognised at the annual Pride of Greene King awards last Wednesday (4 May).
Suffolk-based pubco Greene King is offering a discounted rent to any operator brave enough to man the Osnaburg Bar in Forfar, Angus, which is fabled to be one of Scotland’s most haunted pubs.
Greene King has pledged to donate up to £500,000 in funding to support grassroots sports across the UK as part of its Proud to Pitch In funding scheme.
The White Horse in Arlesey, Bedfordshire has reopened following a joint investment from pub owners Greene King Pub Partners and new licensee Hertfields, a local pub and events company run by Steve Birch.
Greene King has pledged to become net zero by 2040, following steps taken by trade bodies to cut down the sector’s carbon footprint after the chief executive dubbed the climate crisis the “greatest challenge of our time.”
Large operator Greene King this week (Monday 4 April) launched a new inclusion group to support its team members with disabilities, Ability, to mark the start of Autism Awareness Month.
Greene King has launched the ‘Magic Pints Initiative’, in partnership with wastage saving app Too Good To Go, in a bid to save thousands of surplus pints of cask ale from being wasted.
Pub operator Greene King has partnered with TV chef and presenter, Joe Hurd, to launch its new back of house academies for trainee chefs as part of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week (7 to 13 February 2022).
The Prince Albert pub in Ely, Cambridgeshire has bagged a £280,000 investment from Greene King Pub Partners in conjunction with long-term business partners Jeanene and Mike Connelly.
Greene King Pub Partners has relaunched the Red Lion pub in Parkgate, Cheshire, following a £250,000 investment into its renovation from the pub operator and the sites new tenants.
Greene King has partnered with specialist recycling businesses, to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and dispose of typically hard-to-recycle plastic environmentally as part of its new campaign, Tub2Pub.
Greene King has raised more than £2m for Macmillan Cancer Support in 2021, making the company the charity’s top fundraising corporate partner this year.
Pubco and brewer Greene King has announced plans to change the name of one of its pubs in Linlithgow, West Lothian as the name now carries offensive and racist connotations, the company said.
Greene King Pub Partners (GKPP) plans to make a real buzz about its new pub franchise concept – Hive Pubs – which it said is “a branded community pub model”.
Running a pub is like “putting on a show every day”, where consistency is key and hard-won reputations are lost on a single visit, said senior staff at Surrey-based Greene King pub, the Rose and Crown.
Greene King is championing diversity in its pubs through mentoring, following the company’s 2020 pledge to become truly anti-racist and inclusive with equal opportunities for all.
Greene King, the pub company and brewer, has won three top awards in the Tiara Talent awards that recognise outstanding commitment to people and apprenticeships.
I first paid a visit to an LGBTQ pub when I was 18 – I’d just moved to Birmingham to start university and I was introduced to the Village Inn, a central hub of Birmingham’s gay quarter.
Lockdown is costing each of Greene King's pubs on average £4,500 per week, which equates to £7m a week across its managed estate, CEO Nick Mackenzie has said.
Pubco Greene King has confirmed its tenants in tiers two and three will receive a 90% rent concession when national lockdown restrictions are eased tomorrow (Wednesday 2 December).
Discussing England's second national lockdown with The Morning Advertiser's Ed Bedington, Greene King chief executive Nick Mackenzie said he feels 'a little bit let down' by Government.
Suffolk-based brewer and pub operator Greene King will work in tandem with Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum to raise awareness of the historic transatlantic slave trade.
